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- A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Gr**** word meaning revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes. It was first...
- for scene changes. The double-sided-flat eventually evolved into the periaktos. Gr**** stagecraft was essential to the storytelling of its works. An ekkyklema...
- tabula stritta is somewhat similar to that of the ancient triangular periaktos theatre coulisse, and that of the modern day Trivision billboard and lenticular...
- changing scenery. Vitruvius places three doors on the scaenae frons with a periaktos are the extreme ends which could be deplo**** to indicate that the actor...